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18.12.2018
23:50
Japan: Trade Balance Total, bln, November -737 (forecast -600.3)
23:31
Australia: Leading Index, November -0.1%
23:30
Schedule for today, Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Time Country Event Period Previous value Forecast
07:00 Germany Producer Price Index (YoY) November 3.3% 3.2%
07:00 Germany Producer Price Index (MoM) November 0.3% -0.1%
09:30 United Kingdom Retail Price Index, m/m November 0.1% 0.1%
09:30 United Kingdom Producer Price Index - Input (MoM) November 0.8% -3.0%
09:30 United Kingdom Producer Price Index - Input (YoY) November 10% 4.6%
09:30 United Kingdom Producer Price Index - Output (YoY) November 3.3% 2.9%
09:30 United Kingdom Producer Price Index - Output (MoM) November 0.3% -0.1%
09:30 United Kingdom Retail prices, Y/Y November 3.3% 3.2%
09:30 United Kingdom HICP ex EFAT, Y/Y November 1.9% 1.8%
09:30 United Kingdom HICP, m/m November 0.1% 0.2%
09:30 United Kingdom HICP, Y/Y November 2.4% 2.3%
10:00 Eurozone Construction Output, y/y October 4.6%  
11:00 United Kingdom CBI industrial order books balance December 10 6
13:30 U.S. Current account, bln Quarter III -101.5 -124.3
13:30 Canada Consumer Price Index m / m November 0.3% -0.4%
13:30 Canada Bank of Canada Consumer Price Index Core, y/y November 1.6%  
13:30 Canada Consumer price index, y/y November 2.4% 1.8%
14:00 Belgium Business Climate December 0.4 -1.8
14:00 Switzerland SNB Quarterly Bulletin    
15:00 U.S. Existing Home Sales November 5.22 5.2
15:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories December -1.208 -2.475
19:00 U.S. Fed Interest Rate Decision 2.25% 2.5%
19:00 U.S. FOMC Economic Projections    
19:30 U.S. Federal Reserve Press Conference    
21:45 New Zealand Trade Balance, mln November -1295 -880
21:45 New Zealand GDP y/y Quarter III 2.8% 2.8%
21:45 New Zealand GDP q/q Quarter III 1% 0.6%
21:45
New Zealand: Current Account , Quarter III -6.15 (forecast -5.85)
21:26
Major US stock indexes finished trading above zero

Major US stock indices rose slightly, helped by a rise in the industrial goods sector, a rise in technology stocks, and positive earnings reports.

Investors also expected clues as to whether the Federal Reserve would raise rates in the future. It is expected that tomorrow the regulator will raise rates to 2.25-2.50% from 2.00-2.25% and only slightly adjust its economic forecasts. Despite this, the Fed is likely to abandon claims of "further gradual increase" in interest rates due to a change in its position of waiting. Most likely, the forecast of the Fed management will assume two more rate increases in 2019, rather than three, as expected in September.

In addition, the focus was on data on the US housing market. As it became known, US housing construction was restored in November, caused by a surge in multi-unit housing projects, but the construction of single-family homes fell to a 1-1 / 2-year low, indicating a deepening weakness in the housing market, which could spread to a wider economy. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday that bookmarking new homes increased by 3.2% in November, seasonally adjusted to 1.256 million units on an annualized basis.

WTI oil prices collapsed more than 7% on Tuesday after reports of increased stocks and forecasts of record production in the US and Russia, combined with sharp sell-offs in stock markets due to worsening global growth prospects.

Most of the components of DOW recorded an increase (17 of 30). The growth leader was the shares of The Boeing Company (BA, + 4.40%). The outsider was Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM, -2.21%).

Most sectors of the S & P ended in a plus. The growth leader was the industrial goods sector (+ 1.2%). The base materials sector fell the most (-1.1%).

At the time of closing:

Dow 23,675.64 +82.66 + 0.35%

S & P 500 2,546.16 +0.22 + 0.01%

Nasdaq 100 6,783.91 +30.18 + 0.45%

20:50
Schedule for tomorrow, Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Time Country Event Period Previous value Forecast
07:00 Germany Producer Price Index (YoY) November 3.3% 3.2%
07:00 Germany Producer Price Index (MoM) November 0.3% -0.1%
09:30 United Kingdom Retail Price Index, m/m November 0.1% 0.1%
09:30 United Kingdom Producer Price Index - Input (MoM) November 0.8% -3.0%
09:30 United Kingdom Producer Price Index - Input (YoY) November 10% 4.6%
09:30 United Kingdom Producer Price Index - Output (YoY) November 3.3% 2.9%
09:30 United Kingdom Producer Price Index - Output (MoM) November 0.3% -0.1%
09:30 United Kingdom Retail prices, Y/Y November 3.3% 3.2%
09:30 United Kingdom HICP ex EFAT, Y/Y November 1.9% 1.8%
09:30 United Kingdom HICP, m/m November 0.1% 0.2%
09:30 United Kingdom HICP, Y/Y November 2.4% 2.3%
10:00 Eurozone Construction Output, y/y October 4.6%  
11:00 United Kingdom CBI industrial order books balance December 10 6
13:30 U.S. Current account, bln Quarter III -101.5 -124.3
13:30 Canada Consumer Price Index m / m November 0.3% -0.4%
13:30 Canada Bank of Canada Consumer Price Index Core, y/y November 1.6%  
13:30 Canada Consumer price index, y/y November 2.4% 1.8%
14:00 Belgium Business Climate December 0.4 -1.8
14:00 Switzerland SNB Quarterly Bulletin    
15:00 U.S. Existing Home Sales November 5.22 5.2
15:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories December -1.208 -2.475
19:00 U.S. Fed Interest Rate Decision 2.25% 2.5%
19:00 U.S. FOMC Economic Projections    
19:30 U.S. Federal Reserve Press Conference    
21:45 New Zealand Trade Balance, mln November -1295 -880
21:45 New Zealand GDP y/y Quarter III 2.8% 2.8%
21:45 New Zealand GDP q/q Quarter III 1% 0.6%
20:10
New Zealand: Westpac Consumer Sentiment, Quarter IV 109.1
20:01
DJIA +0.02% 23,596.80 +3.82 Nasdaq +0.04% 6,756.10 +2.37 S&P -0.38% 2,536.36 -9.58
17:00
European stocks closed: FTSE 100 -71.65 6701.59 -1.06% DAX -31.31 10740.89 -0.29% CAC 40 -45.79 4754.08 -0.95%
14:34
U.S. Stocks open: Dow +0.93%, Nasdaq +0.75%, S&P +0.79%
14:19
Before the bell: S&P futures +0.67%, NASDAQ futures +0.67%

U.S. stock-index futures rose on Tuesday, pointing to a possible rebound for Wall Street after a steep stock sell-off in the prior session.


Global Stocks:

Index/commodity

Last

Today's Change, points

Today's Change, %

Nikkei

21,115.45

-391.43

-1.82%

Hang Seng

25,814.25

-273.73

-1.05%

Shanghai

2,576.65

-21.32

-0.82%

S&P/ASX

5,589.50

-68.80

-1.22%

FTSE

6,740.91

-32.33

-0.48%

CAC

4,791.97

-7.90

-0.16%

DAX

10,801.46

+29.26

+0.27%

Crude

$48.87


-2.02%

Gold

$1,251.70


-0.01%

13:53
Wall Street. Stocks before the bell

Wall Street. Stocks before the bell

(company / ticker / price / change ($/%) / volume)


3M Co

MMM

194.7

1.88(0.98%)

388

ALCOA INC.

AA

28.4

0.29(1.03%)

106

ALTRIA GROUP INC.

MO

52.75

0.40(0.76%)

2090

Amazon.com Inc., NASDAQ

AMZN

1,541.37

20.46(1.35%)

57726

American Express Co

AXP

102.25

1.07(1.06%)

100

Apple Inc.

AAPL

165.41

1.47(0.90%)

155294

AT&T Inc

T

30.03

0.17(0.57%)

28796

Barrick Gold Corporation, NYSE

ABX

13.58

-0.07(-0.51%)

81548

Boeing Co

BA

324.03

7.90(2.50%)

25143

Caterpillar Inc

CAT

125.72

1.25(1.00%)

3318

Cisco Systems Inc

CSCO

44.57

0.37(0.84%)

16542

Citigroup Inc., NYSE

C

54.65

0.40(0.74%)

48646

Exxon Mobil Corp

XOM

74.1

0.06(0.08%)

5211

Facebook, Inc.

FB

141.4

1.21(0.86%)

37668

FedEx Corporation, NYSE

FDX

184.7

2.51(1.38%)

2552

Ford Motor Co.

F

8.59

0.09(1.06%)

21952

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., NYSE

FCX

10.6

0.01(0.09%)

23563

General Electric Co

GE

7.22

0.07(0.98%)

427616

General Motors Company, NYSE

GM

35

0.34(0.98%)

1203

Goldman Sachs

GS

169.93

1.92(1.14%)

14400

Google Inc.

GOOG

1,029.79

13.26(1.30%)

7659

Home Depot Inc

HD

169

1.03(0.61%)

1776

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.

HON

135.8

1.42(1.06%)

4890

Intel Corp

INTC

47.5

0.42(0.89%)

19002

International Business Machines Co...

IBM

117

0.90(0.78%)

5438

Johnson & Johnson

JNJ

132.5

3.36(2.60%)

306842

JPMorgan Chase and Co

JPM

99.65

0.64(0.65%)

12323

McDonald's Corp

MCD

181.09

0.30(0.17%)

214

Microsoft Corp

MSFT

103.72

0.83(0.81%)

93976

Nike

NKE

69.95

0.05(0.07%)

43171

Pfizer Inc

PFE

43.14

0.03(0.07%)

2653

Starbucks Corporation, NASDAQ

SBUX

64.8

0.33(0.51%)

3986

Tesla Motors, Inc., NASDAQ

TSLA

351.22

2.80(0.80%)

63717

The Coca-Cola Co

KO

48.4

0.07(0.14%)

2362

Twitter, Inc., NYSE

TWTR

33.61

0.18(0.54%)

64902

UnitedHealth Group Inc

UNH

260

1.93(0.75%)

2040

Verizon Communications Inc

VZ

56.11

0.16(0.29%)

3078

Visa

V

132.3

0.90(0.68%)

12866

Wal-Mart Stores Inc

WMT

90.92

0.15(0.17%)

10136

Walt Disney Co

DIS

111.2

0.58(0.52%)

2792

Yandex N.V., NASDAQ

YNDX

27.66

0.18(0.66%)

775

13:36
Canadian manufacturing sales edged down 0.1% in October to $58.2 billion, following four increases in the previous five months

Lower sales at wood product and primary metal industries were largely offset by higher sales at food and machinery industries.

Overall, sales were down in 7 of 21 industries, representing 40.5% of the manufacturing sector. Sales of durable goods decreased 0.9% to $30.0 billion, while sales of non-durable goods rose 0.7% to $28.3 billion.

Constant dollar sales increased 0.2%, indicating a higher volume of goods sold


13:35
U.S building permits and housing starts rose more than expected in November

Privately‐owned housing units authorized by building permits in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,328,000.  This is 5.0 percent above the revised October rate of 1,265,000 and is 0.4 percent above the November 2017 rate of 1,323,000. Single‐family authorizations in November were at a rate of 848,000; this is 0.1 percent above the revised October figure of 847,000.  Authorizations of units in buildings with five units or more were at a rate of 441,000 in November.

Privately‐owned housing starts in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,256,000.  This is 3.2 percent above the revised October estimate of 1,217,000, but is 3.6 percent below the November 2017 rate of 1,303,000.  Single‐family housing starts in November were at a rate of 824,000; this is 4.6 percent below the revised October figure of 864,000. The November rate for units in buildings with five units or more was 417,000.  

13:30
U.S.: Housing Starts, November 1.256 (forecast 1.225)
13:30
U.S.: Building Permits, November 1.328 (forecast 1.259)
13:30
Canada: Manufacturing Shipments (MoM), October -0.1% (forecast 0.4%)
12:50
I hope the people over at the Fed will read today’s Wall Street Journal Editorial before they make yet another mistake @realDonaldTrump

I hope the people over at the Fed will read today’s Wall Street Journal Editorial before they make yet another mistake. Also, don’t let the market become any more illiquid than it already is. Stop with the 50 B’s. Feel the market, don’t just go by meaningless numbers. Good luck!

12:13
Carrefour is the French retailer the most affected by the yellow-vest protests in France, with estimated losses of up to EUR150 million

Carrefour is the French retailer the most affected by the yellow-vest protests in France, with estimated losses of up to EUR150 million, Bryan Garnier says. The bill should be significant for retailers, the brokerage says, but not as alarming as estimates provided by other organizations. Retailers Casino, Maisons du Monde and Fnac Darty should suffer fewer losses than Carrefour. However, the movement could have an even greater impact on the businesses' EBIT with possible losses at this level for Carrefour, BG forecasts. Carrefour shares are down 0.58% at EUR14.53. - via WSJ

12:06
Putin says Russia can easily create land based intermediate range missile systems if U.S. leaves INF nuclear treaty @DeItaOne
09:41
Concern is growing among German businesses says Ifo

The ifo Business Climate Index fell to 101.0 points in December from 102.0 points in November. Companies were less satisfied with their current business situation. Their business expectations also continued to deteriorate. The German economy faces a lean festive season.

In manufacturing the business climate index fell markedly. This was primarily due to manufacturers’ business expectations, which turned negative for the first time since May 2016. In line with these developments, manufacturers scaled back their production plans. Their assessments of the current business situation also deteriorated slightly, but nevertheless remain at a high level.


09:00
Germany: IFO - Expectations , December 97.3 (forecast 98.3)
09:00
Germany: IFO - Business Climate, December 101 (forecast 101.8)
09:00
Germany: IFO - Current Assessment , December 104.7 (forecast 104.9)
08:35
FTSE -31.96 6741.28 -0.47% DAX -28.43 10743.77 -0.26% CAC -21.42 4778.45 -0.45%
08:02
Options levels on tuesday, December 18, 2018 EURUSD GBPUSD

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1487 (927)

$1.1471 (209)

$1.1448 (138)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1351

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1321 (6772)

$1.1282 (5041)

$1.1240 (2977)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 69566 contracts (according to data from December, 17) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (7122);


GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2839 (684)

$1.2779 (502)

$1.2723 (188)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2650

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2584 (1495)

$1.2552 (1556)

$1.2516 (1289)


Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 7 is 33121 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3400 (3835);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 30344 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2450 (2891);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.92 versus 0.92 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 17

* - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange bulletin (CME) is used for the calculation.

** - Open interest takes into account the total number of option contracts that are open at the moment.

07:51
RBA says: No strong case for a change in monetary policy - Minutes

  • Board agreed next move in rates more likely to be up than down

  • saw no strong case for a near-term change in policy

  • steady policy allowed RBA to be a source of stability and confidence

  • sluggish household incomes, high debt and falling home prices "posed downside risks"

  • had expected Q3 GDP growth to be above 3 pct for the year (vs actual 2.8 pct)

  • Expected GDP growth to run above potential this year and next

  • Leading indicators pointed to above average jobs growth for next couple of quarters

  • Further fall in the unemployment rate likely

*via forexlive
07:47
In the December ANZ Business Outlook Survey headline business confidence lifted meaningfully

Business confidence rose 13 points in December. Firms’ views of their own activity lifted 6 points.  

Expected profitability and employment, investment and export intentions rose, and perceived availability of credit jumped sharply. Marring the picture a little, most indicators for the agriculture sector deteriorated.

In the December ANZ Business Outlook Survey headline business confidence lifted meaningfully. That said, it remains in the red, with a net 24% of respondents reporting they expect general business conditions to deteriorate in the year ahead. More importantly, firms’ perceptions of their own activity rose 6 points to a net 14% expecting a lift. The construction sector continued to be the most optimistic at +22%. The retail sector remains the least positive (1.9%).

07:46
Trump Says It Is 'Incredible' Fed Is Considering Another Rate Increase

"It is incredible that with a very strong dollar and virtually no inflation, the outside world blowing up around us, Paris is burning and China way down, the Fed is even considering yet another interest rate hike," Mr. Trump tweeted. "Take the Victory!"

07:45
Futures: DAX -0,6% FTSE -0.4% CAC -0,8%
07:41
Swiss Federal Government’s Expert Group is significantly lowering its forecast for GDP growth in 2018 and 2019

This is mainly due to weak domestic demand, which is likely to pick up again only in 2020. GDP is set to grow by 1.5% in 2019 and by 1.7% in 2020.

After five quarters of strong growth, the Swiss economy slowed abruptly in the 3rd quarter and economic output contracted by 0.2%. In the wake of the decline in international growth, Swiss foreign trade decreased. The appreciation of the Swiss franc in the meantime additionally slowed exports, while domestic demand also failed to stimulate growth.

The Expert Group forecasts that both the export and domestic economies will return to moderate growth after the weak 3rd quarter. However, the strong GDP growth rates of the first half of 2018 will no longer be achieved. Leading indicators at home and abroad also point in this direction. Nevertheless, due to the strong first half of the year, GDP growth for 2018 overall is likely to come in well above average at 2.6% (September forecast: 2.9%).


07:38
Today I am making good on my promise and I have authorized Secretary Perdue to implement the 2nd round of Market Facilitation Payments @realDonaldTrump

Today I am making good on my promise to defend our Farmers & Ranchers from unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. I have authorized Secretary Perdue to implement the 2nd round of Market Facilitation Payments. Our economy is stronger than ever–we stand with our Farmers!

02:30
Commodities. Daily history for Monday, December 17, 2018
Raw materials Closed Change, %
Brent 58.74 -2.86
WTI 49.48 -4.24
Silver 14.63 0.76
Gold 1245.776 0.85
Palladium 1247.83 0.62
00:30
Stocks. Daily history for Monday, December 17, 2018
Index Change, points Closed Change, %
NIKKEI 225 132.05 21506.88 0.62
Hang Seng -6.81 26087.98 -0.03
KOSPI 1.71 2071.09 0.08
ASX 200 56.3 5658.3 1
FTSE 100 -71.93 6773.24 -1.05
DAX -93.57 10772.2 -0.86
Dow Jones -507.53 23592.98 -2.11
S&P 500 -54.01 2545.94 -2.08
NASDAQ Composite -156.94 6753.73 -2.27
00:15
Currencies. Daily history for Monday, December 17, 2018
Pare Closed Change, %
AUDUSD 0.71757 0.04
EURJPY 128.021 -0.1
EURUSD 1.13467 0.39
GBPJPY 142.312 -0.01
GBPUSD 1.2613 0.49
NZDUSD 0.6804 0.13
USDCAD 1.34074 0.2
USDCHF 0.99311 -0.37
USDJPY 112.82 -0.46
00:00
New Zealand: ANZ Business Confidence, December -24.1

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